I loved the Allegro. All faults aside,I had more fun in this than my 2008 Peugeot 207 diesel. Would love a nice brown mark 1 with vynil seats and cassette player for all my old cassettes I haven't listened to for 10-15 years. Trips to the beach in my mark3 1982 Allegro in brown,a 1.3L, were fantastic. Suddenly I'm 19 again and it's 1994 😊
The most interesting thing about these older cops show are the engine sounds! Nowadays mobies just use false engine sound on a false it should be with shitty CGi effects. People drives real cars back then! I would love to live in the 1970s again perhaps!
Sorry, my mistake, after watching it again the Allegro was brown after all, its just that they were nearly all that mustard colour back then, I didn't realise they came in such an array of colours.
What show was this...?!? I recognise the baddie in the light grey suit. He played the police boss in Dempsey and Makepeace. But this looks older than that show. Oh the glamour of being in a car chase with an Allegro. Loved the vicar!!
+John Smith The show is Julet Bravo from 1980. And you're right, the villain in this piece is Ray Smith who did indeed go on to play Chief Superintendent Gordon Spikings in Dempsey and Makepeace. Here he's playing robber Jimmy Harker. Poacher turned gamekeeper?...
Our cars back then looked aweful, and the car chase scenes were ridiculous. The mk11 Escort had the aerodynamics of a brick, and so did the little Mini, and as for the Allegro or All-Aggro as some used to call it, it was so boring, just the car for the person with no sense of style or taste. Can anyone tell me how come the Allegro changed from that crappy mustard colour to chocolate brown during the chase? Maybe it had a dip in the river at some point.
Cops in CID the '80's often used Ford Escort Popular Plus. Normally two door at that.. never anything nice, just your average runabout. I had the same model, and it was infuriating if I was in a hurry and caught someone up as they invarably slowed to the speed limit thinking I might be the law.. Rule one, never buy the same as plod, buy better.
jo Shaw when I was 19, I'm coming 43 soon,I swapped a mountain bike for an Austin Allegro. It was brown,the wings were full of badly finished filler, resprayed in brown, and it had a faulty radiator hose that eventually spelt it's demise with a blown head gasket!! Back in the early 90s, this was one of a handful of cars I owned that didn't have insurance etc, but I had most fun in this one! Now I'm older and more sensible, and fully insured,I would love another Austin Allegro 1.3L in brown, mine was a mark 2 or 3. I'd ultimately prefer a mark 1 2 door with vynil seats and cassette player for all my rock and indie classics that I haven't listened to for a decade at least, whilst driving to the beach, the 90s were great with all my late 70s/early 80s bangers 😊
Only on British TV would a baddie escape on a Honda C50, pursued by a brown Allegro.
+The Ott Channel A brown Allegro 1100 deluxe no less lol...
The cop was even nice enough to help him out of the water. A character like Dirty Harry would have just shot him.
Loved my brown Allegro mark 3 1.3 L, 1982 vintage, that I drove as a 19 year old in 1994. It was rusty but fun to drive
@ 1:08 The unmistakable sound of a Ford Crossflow engine being thrashed. Great video.
The fuck? It's former Prime Minister John Major driving an Alegro!
The only Prime Minister in history to bring up the subject of a pop star in parliament (Brian Harvey)
I don't think the producers and directors of Starsky & Hutch had a lot to worry about back in the 70s, eh? ^^
I ve got a 1973 honda c70 45 years old and still plods along one of the best motorcycles ever made
always loved the 70,we as kids in the mid 80s had em for field bikes,the 70s were quicker than the 90s..great fun
I loved the Allegro. All faults aside,I had more fun in this than my 2008 Peugeot 207 diesel. Would love a nice brown mark 1 with vynil seats and cassette player for all my old cassettes I haven't listened to for 10-15 years. Trips to the beach in my mark3 1982 Allegro in brown,a 1.3L, were fantastic. Suddenly I'm 19 again and it's 1994 😊
sugar magnolia go get one you can pick them up dirt cheap . go relive your good old days! lol .
This must be an episode of Juliet Bravo. Hartley was the name fictional town it was set . How I remember crap info like this is a mystery 🤔
2:41. Car-jacking police style! Followed by the slowest police chase in history ever!
British Leyland baby sick green! You don't get colours like that anymore!
I know this gray haired man!Spikings from Dempsey and Makepeace,or not?
Is the driver from the Mini Gordon Spikings from Dempsey and Makepeace?
The most interesting thing about these older cops show are the engine sounds! Nowadays mobies just use false engine sound on a false it should be with shitty CGi effects. People drives real cars back then! I would love to live in the 1970s again perhaps!
Crossply and Radial tyres, check how you mix them.
...wow...was that moped going quicker than the Allegro....go faster stripes always helped...
Would this be Yorkshires version of vanishing point ?
I love Allegros. They look like a squatting toad from the back, just wonderful.
owen lewis turtle I thought
Lads I miss mine
Nobody bothered with seat belts back then.
Those were the days, that grey haired guy had quite a bit of weight on him, but he was fit, I wouldn't have liked a punch from him. !
@3:11 That man driving the Allegro looks like the Rev. Wibert Vere Awdry.
Sorry, my mistake, after watching it again the Allegro was brown after all, its just
that they were nearly all that mustard colour back then, I didn't realise they came
in such an array of colours.
Anyone recognise the town?
there is no way that is a standard 1.3 Escort L lol surely has to be a 1.6 at least. I love 70's cars :-) there is a reason mini's won rallys heheheh
Grim doesn't quite cover it.
It’s a mini not an allegro!!!!!!
next time watch the video
Love the sound of that Escort.
what programme is this? would like it on dvd, cheers
Juliet Bravo
Series 1, Episode 2.
The All-Agro was flat out there I see
Yorkshire.... 2016
simonmd2000 not much has changed in 2018 I'm joking😂
What show was this...?!? I recognise the baddie in the light grey suit. He played the police boss in Dempsey and Makepeace. But this looks older than that show. Oh the glamour of being in a car chase with an Allegro. Loved the vicar!!
+John Smith The show is Julet Bravo from 1980. And you're right, the villain in this piece is Ray Smith who did indeed go on to play Chief Superintendent Gordon Spikings in Dempsey and Makepeace. Here he's playing robber Jimmy Harker. Poacher turned gamekeeper?...
John Smith the bill if I'm not mistaken
what about the Professionals?
Glad your back - glad to hear a kent engine on the boil in this too.
Why do i like the look of the allegro, am i weird?
Honda C50 I bought one new in 1975 ran on 2 star petrol ..
Our cars back then looked aweful, and the car chase scenes were ridiculous.
The mk11 Escort had the aerodynamics of a brick, and so did the little Mini,
and as for the Allegro or All-Aggro as some used to call it, it was so boring,
just the car for the person with no sense of style or taste. Can anyone tell me
how come the Allegro changed from that crappy mustard colour to chocolate
brown during the chase? Maybe it had a dip in the river at some point.
I think it was just a popular style of car design. Straight and boxy was cool back then.
This is downright laughable!
+rareblues78daddy Keeps me interested, seems pretty realistic lol, none of that Hollywood stuff
I was genuinly belly laughing at this.
@citroenman Glad to be back. more autoshite videos coming shortly.......
the canal bridge is quite distnctive?
Kudos on the MK2 Escort - but they might have used an RS Mexico at minimum, or RS2000 at best..
Cops in CID the '80's often used Ford Escort Popular Plus. Normally two door at that.. never anything nice, just your average runabout. I had the same model, and it was infuriating if I was in a hurry and caught someone up as they invarably slowed to the speed limit thinking I might be the law.. Rule one, never buy the same as plod, buy better.
yes, your right
well spotted
i love the allegroes n this is s old film what year luv vintage stuff
jo Shaw when I was 19, I'm coming 43 soon,I swapped a mountain bike for an Austin Allegro. It was brown,the wings were full of badly finished filler, resprayed in brown, and it had a faulty radiator hose that eventually spelt it's demise with a blown head gasket!! Back in the early 90s, this was one of a handful of cars I owned that didn't have insurance etc, but I had most fun in this one! Now I'm older and more sensible, and fully insured,I would love another Austin Allegro 1.3L in brown, mine was a mark 2 or 3. I'd ultimately prefer a mark 1 2 door with vynil seats and cassette player for all my rock and indie classics that I haven't listened to for a decade at least, whilst driving to the beach, the 90s were great with all my late 70s/early 80s bangers 😊
Is this a wind up or a real TV show brilliant whatever it is so bad it's great! !
Great stuff ! the 70s yay !
Anchor butter
What, no ABS? them were days.
I think the basic Mk 2 escort had drum brakes all round.
its 100% REV.COLIN CORKE HAHAHAHA
....John Major in an early acting role at 3:13...went on to become PM.....
"Target" with patrick Mower
2SpaceTraveller2 It's not Target, that was set in Southampton, and while Ray Smith was in an episode he played an MP not a robber...
what programme is this?
Is this from the bill?
Since when was the bill filmed in Yorkshire? Read the other comments and all will become clear.
Aut0five hmm, just looked a lot like the characters from the bill.
was it hull. lol a maxi car